Regions in the human brain activated by simultaneous orientation discrimination: A study with positron emission tomography

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3689-3699

  Dupont, Patrick ^a   Vogels, Rufin ^b   Vandenberghe, Rik ^b   Rosier, Annemie ^b   Cornette, Luc ^b   Bormans, Guy ^a   Mortelmans, Luc ^a   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Functional imaging; Regional cerebral blood flow; Spatial comparison; Task; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032457962     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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